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July 2024

  • Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell arrives in Downing Street to attend weekly Cabinet meeting in London.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s Commons reforms: too cautious and too piecemeal

  • Lucy Powell

    UK government to prevent MPs taking on lobbying jobs

December 2023

  • Peers and guests in the House of the Lords.

    Labour pledges to ‘clean up politics’ after outrage over Liz Truss honours list

    Shadow front bencher says Keir Starmer would not have resignation honours after ‘appalling spectacle’ of ex-prime minister ‘rewarding cronies’

April 2023

  • A screen showing a news report seen through the windows of the BBC in central London, after chairman Richard Sharp announced he was quitting.

    Appointment of next BBC chair must not be tainted by ‘sleaze’, Labour say

  • A screen showing a news report of Richard Sharp’s resignation, seen through the windows of the BBC’s central London headquarters

    The Guardian view on Richard Sharp’s resignation: Johnson’s toxic legacy

March 2023

  • Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said ‘the whole appointment of [Richard] Sharp stank.’

    Labour vows to ‘secure BBC’s independence’ after Lineker row

  • MPs have been discussing BBC impartiality after the suspension of Gary Lineker following his tweets criticising the government’s illegal migration bill.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Gary Lineker’s BBC suspension like something from ‘Putin’s Russia’, says Labour – as it happened

January 2023

  • Molly Russell, 14, who took her own life in November 2017.

    Labour pledges to toughen ‘weakened and gutted’ online safety bill

    Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell vows to target algorithms that bombard children with harmful content if party wins power

September 2022

  • Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's Labour Party waves next to his wife Victoria after making his speech at the party's annual conference in Liverpool.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer promises to launch publicly-owned UK energy company as he hails ‘Labour moment’ – as it happened

    Latest updates: the Labour party leader used his conference speech to spell out his plan for the UK. This blog is now closed

August 2022

  • The shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell.

    Labour pledges to strengthen the BBC’s independence and protect funding

    Party would insulate broadcaster from political pressure, says shadow culture secretary, as Liz Truss prepares to wage war on it

July 2022

  • Ademola Adedeji

    Manchester MP to write to minister over ‘guilty by association’ verdicts

    Lucy Powell raises with Dominic Raab case of young black men jailed after taking part in a group chat

May 2022

  • Keir Starmer

    Starmer beer claim ‘smears’ could drag on for weeks, top Labour figures warn

    Shadow cabinet reveal their frustration after elections as police
    re-examine allegations of Covid rules breach

April 2022

  • Sir Ian Cheshire

    Cronyism fears as businessman Sir Ian Cheshire is named head of Channel 4

    Jon Snow and other leading broadcasters express concern over appointment and call for C4’s public service remit to be protected

March 2022

  • Lucy Powell, Manchester Central MP and shadow culture secretary photographed at Hallé St Peter’s.

    ‘Nadine Dorries is terrible! That’s made my job easier’: Labour’s Lucy Powell on the Tories, culture war and BBC

    As a teenager, the shadow culture secretary was always up for a party. Now she is expected to have a view on everything from the legacy of colonialism to the future of the licence fee. How is she handling the never-ending controversy?

November 2021

  • Yvette Cooper

    Labour reshuffle: who’s up and who’s down in Keir Starmer’s shake-up

    Key role goes to Yvette Cooper in leader’s radical overhaul of his shadow cabinet

April 2021

  • The Liberty Steel site in Rotherham.

    UK government must save Liberty Steel soon to protect supply chain jobs, warns Labour

    Party says insolvency could threaten thousands of workers if owner Sanjeev Gupta fails to find new lender

November 2020

  • Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak load produce at Tesco’s Erith distribution centre in south-east London last week.

    Supermarkets should pay back £1.9bn Covid business rates relief, say MPs

    Conservative and Labour MPs say taxpayers’ money not needed by big chains, who are paying out dividends

September 2020

  • Rishi Sunak

    Labour accuses Rishi Sunak of consigning 1m jobs 'to the scrapheap'

    Wedding, exhibition and festival workers among those left unprotected by winter economic plan announced last week

July 2020

  • Connect House in Ancoats, Manchester

    Leaseholders billed up to £115,000 each to remove Grenfell-style cladding

    Flat owners in Manchester block say they face bankruptcy unless government steps in

December 2019

  • Ed Miliband

    Labour election inquiry will not recommend leadership candidate

    Inquiry will look at reasons for party’s poor showing rather than suggesting replacement for Jeremy Corbyn
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